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Gourmet Odyssey partner winemakers win medals at the Challenge Millésime Bio 2018 organic wine competition



The Challenge Millésime Bio wine competition organised by the Millésime Bio professional organic wine fair took place this week. Once again, the Gourmet Odyssey partner winemakers saw their wines win medals at this prestigious organic wine competition.

 

Gourmet Odyssey's wines are awarded medals at Challenge Millésime Bio

Challenge Millésime Bio is an international wine competition that receives over 1500 organic wines each year to judge.  The jury is made up of wine professionals, and this year the president was Klaus Hermann, Director of the German wine magazine, WEIN+MARKT.

International wine fair and challenge in France

Of the 1516 wine samples presented for tasting during this year’s competion, the jury awarded medals to 434 wines:

  • 136 gold medals
  • 201 silver medals
  • 97 bronze medals
The selection is harsh with just over 400 medals awarded 

Among our partner wineries, four of our winemakers had the pleasure of receiving a medal:

  • Domaine la Cabotte in the Cotes du Rhone wine-growing region received a gold medal for their 2015 Châteauneuf-Du-Pape Vieilles Vignes
  • Château Beau Rivage in Macau-en-Médoc was also awarded a gold medal for their 2015 Clos la Bohème
  • Domaine Chapelle, our partner vineyard in Burgundy, won silver for their 2015 Santenay Premier Cru Beaurepaire
  • Domaine Allegria was also awarded a silver medal for their 2014 Languedoc Mendel Malbec

Congratulations for these well-deserved awards. We look forward to the tasting them at the Millésime Bio organic wine fair!

 

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Raising our glass to 2018


Another exciting year draws to a close and a new one full of promise begins in the world of wine and at Gourmet Odyssey!

For the 2017 vintage, we welcomed Château Coutet in Saint-Emilion to the Gourmet Odyssey Wine Experience, and Domaine de la Guicharde in the Rhone valley begins the adventure with the 2018 vintage. As with all of our other partner wineries, they are both organically certified and Domaine de la Guicharde is also a biodynamic winery. Discover the magic of these two wineries by adopting some vines and participating in one of the Wine Experience Days in the vineyard and cellar.

In the vineyard, 2017 was finally a good year.  After a few scares and scrapes with frost in April, and then the dryness of the summer months, the 2017 harvest was picked in great weather conditions, and the first impressions are very good, as you might have read in our summary of the 2017 vintage.

We are getting ready to welcome you for the 2018 vintage and are impatient to discover what the year holds in store!  We hope that it is a fine vintage and year, full of great moments shared in the vineyard, and around a bottle of wine.

We wish you all an excellent 2018!

Mark, Marie, Louise, Myriam et Jacqueline

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